diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..08a91479d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+version=2
+https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/downloads /downloads/libgit2/libgit2/libgit2-(.+)\.tar\.gz